COVID19 - How it's affecting you

This is exactly how I am feeling at the moment
Is it perfect? No. But could be a lot, lot, lot, lot worse.

As demonstrated a few thousand miles west of us.

As demonstrated a few thousand miles west of us.

Yep!

People are praising Cuomo for his response, and his leadership has been amazing but hopefully they don't forget the last few years. Cuomo will probably be president after this should he choose to run in 2024.

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This is exactly how I am feeling at the moment
Is it perfect? No. But could be a lot, lot, lot, lot worse.

Sharing the sentinent of you both!

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There it is, Boris Johnson has Covid19

And Matt Hancock, the Health Secretay.

Boris had already said that  Dominic Raab would take over if he got coronavirus and couldn't continue as PM.

The only thing that bothered me about the clapping was that the news interviewed one woman who was taking credit for it and acting like she came up with the idea.   People in Spain and France have been doing this EVERY NIGHT for weeks.  It is not a new idea and very typical of the British to do a half-assed version of something good from another country and then pretend they invented it.

I shouldn't laugh... But I laughed. Oh man. So funny!

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This is exactly how I am feeling at the moment
Is it perfect? No. But could be a lot, lot, lot, lot worse.

{It could be someone whose last name starts with a T who wants to reopen the economy and have churches packed full at Easter.}

The Daughter has noted that for the last few days (as in she's said it every day) that he's been looking "peaky".

COVID-19 has cancelled our May wedding.  I was hoping to work through the spousal visa (He's a Brit; I'm American) before I needed to go back to the US in November for business, but now it looks like it will be a September wedding at the earliest.  We've been planning this since March last year, so it was a bit of a bummer.
Way less important than the lives being lost and risked to handle the virus.  I'm lucky to be alive, well and working from home for the first time in my career (was always told that the company would never let it happen!).  Funny how things change when the world turns upside down.
Hopefully it clears up before September (ignoring what the US President says at the moment)!

COVID-19 has cancelled our May wedding.  I was hoping to work through the spousal visa (He's a Brit; I'm American) before I needed to go back to the US in November for business, but now it looks like it will be a September wedding at the earliest.  We've been planning this since March last year, so it was a bit of a bummer.
Way less important than the lives being lost and risked to handle the virus.  I'm lucky to be alive, well and working from home for the first time in my career (was always told that the company would never let it happen!).  Funny how things change when the world turns upside down.
Hopefully it clears up before September (ignoring what the US President says at the moment)!

I'm sorry about your wedding but what you could do is; as soon as they lift the ban on anything but essential activities, you could always have a quick, legal wedding just so that you can move on with the visa process. You can have a family affair later, once things have settled down. They don't even need to know if you don't want them to!

And just a small point but as you are in the UK already on a work visa, you will be applying for FLR(M) rather than a spouse visa.

COVID-19 has cancelled our May wedding.  I was hoping to work through the spousal visa (He's a Brit; I'm American) before I needed to go back to the US in November for business, but now it looks like it will be a September wedding at the earliest.  We've been planning this since March last year, so it was a bit of a bummer.
Way less important than the lives being lost and risked to handle the virus.  I'm lucky to be alive, well and working from home for the first time in my career (was always told that the company would never let it happen!).  Funny how things change when the world turns upside down.
Hopefully it clears up before September (ignoring what the US President says at the moment)!

I'm so sorry about your wedding plans!

Disabled people the world over are a bit up in arms right now about the home working aspect of this. Most of us have lost jobs because "remote work is just not an option here", heard over and over and over. If it goes back to the status quo after this, I will be very angry because this has proven you can continue to run businesses with a number of roles being remote at least some of the time!

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I think it's shocking margo that in this day and age that companies are using that line and this just proves its possible.  Employers are just lazy, lazy,lazy. 

I may have been mistaken.
Googled to see what was out there about candles in windows and came up with this one. 

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2020-03-22/people-asked-to-put-a-candle-in-their-window/

https://veryweather.co.uk/2020/03/britain-will-cheer-every-thursday-at-8pm-for-nhs/

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I have got our Christmas pillar candles (battery powered) and will be putting one in each of our big windows every night until it's over.

In case it's of any use to anyone:

Bleach & Water as a disinfectant for surfaces - 4 USA teaspoons bleach per quart of water.  Using a dedicated rag, this would allow you to save back on your disposable wipes.  This is calculated on USA-strength standard bleach (approx 5 grams sodium h. to 100 g water).

It looks like "thin" bleach here is only 1g sodium h. to 100 g water, so you'll want to check! Bottle says  to dilute 300ml of bleach in 5 litres of water for cleaning, so about 12 USA teaspoons per quart. (Somebody check my math.) The US recommendation would be for 20 USA teaspoons of thin to a quart?

"Thick" bleach, which I thought was only different in having an additive to make it stick to the sides of toilets a bit, is actually considerably stronger, so read the directions carefully if you are diluting using "Thick" bleach. It seems to approximate the strength of USA bleach (5 g to 100g H20).

Also, bleach water loses potency after 24 hours, so don't make it up too much in advance. Apparently also bleach "expires" so bleach more than a year old is kinda worthless.... 

per https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/cleaning-disinfection.html

You might also want to read about the persistence of Covid-19 on surfaces, and how effective antibac wipes are.

https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext

They've started sending food parcels to people that were identified as "shielding" by the NHS, but with no regard for medical conditions or allergies. So delivering entirely wheat based products to a person with celiac, and still no way for them to get delivery orders in. I'm so grossed out by how this country has managed this. That also excludes all the homebound people that didn't have the very limited conditions the NHS used.

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Well, they're at least trying. Doesn't help the situation much, but at least they are trying. Again, the generic, pervasive low-level incompetence that runs through society.... (although it is a pandemic and not really something anyone really expects and plans for.)

If it helps, for perspective perhaps remember that in the USA you'd have gotten nothing at all and would not expect to be getting anything you didn't arrange for yourself. And that grocery deliveries in a lot of areas in the States is a non-item. (As in, they don't deliver.)

Perhaps there's some online community where you can swap items with someone who can use them who has something they cannot or do not want?

I have been trying to get a Tesco slot, they are still booked solid. Sainsburys says we don't have the conditions on their list. That will mean that in a week I will have to go out again and get some items. Assuming they are in the shop and that I have not shown any symptoms. I am waiting the full seven days since that drunk coughed all over us, just to be sure. I am feeling fortunate that there actually is a shop within a mile to walk to. Otherwise, we'll manage until there is nothing left in the house to eat (not a danger for some time) or I've gotten the bug and gotten over it. If I do not get over it, I have no idea how the Daughter will manage. She is afraid to go out, now.